A Greener Life

DECEMBER 5, 2024

By Kevin Damasio Under pressure after racking up Amazon deforestation records, Par state is now targeting the bioeconomy. It also has some of the lowest levels of development in the Amazon region. So, is the states economic model and its image as a major deforester about to change? The state expects to invest 1.2

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Colombia came to a similar decision about the Atrato River. In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Colombia decided that the Atrato River in Colombia’s northwest Department of Chocó is a recognized rights-holding subject, with specific rights to protection, conservation, maintenance, and restoration.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Edited by Michael Burger (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), Teresa Parejo (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and Lisa Sachs (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). With research and administrative support from Nathan Lobel (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment).

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The flagrant lack of regulation promotes widespread deforestation, leaves infrastructure vulnerable to frequent natural disasters, and results in unorganized waste disposal.[1] 2016 Nov 22;3(4):151161. 2] For example, on January 12, 2010, an earthquake struck Haiti near Port-au-Prince in a catastrophic event, affecting approximately 3.5

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Moreover, as suggested by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation, renewable energy is much better than fossil fuels exploitation in terms of sustainable development (unlike someone in Moore’s movie suggested).

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

10] As wealthy nations develop and farms become more productive, grasslands, forests, and wildlife are returning. Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] 30] Roughly 40 percent of the planet has seen “greening”—more forest and other biomass growth—between 1981 and 2016.

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